Does nonfarm job growth encourage or retard soil conservation in Philippine uplands?
This paper examines the impacts that growth in nonfarm job opportunities may have on agricultural practices in the Philippine uplands. One possible scenario is that the […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): A. Rola; I. Coxhead
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Linking economic policy and environmental outcomes at a watershed scale
This paper evaluates the economic and environmental impacts of four types of policy changes that aim to enhance sustainability of upland farming. The policies assessed are […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): G. Shively; C. Zelek
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Testing the link between public intervention and food price variability: Evidence from rice markets in the Philippines
This paper applies a model of food price variability to examine the outcomes of government interventions in the rice market in the Philippines. The authors describe […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): G. Shively; E. Martinez; W. Masters
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
Grounded in the landscape: Eliciting farmers’ understanding of soil and soil fertility, Mali (West Africa)
In order to develop convincing messages and sustainable interventions, it is necessary to understand how farmers themselves perceive soil conditions and how these perceptions influence their […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): T. Crane
- Type of Document: Research Brief
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Techniques de conservation et d’amelioration de la fertilite des terres cultivees en zone sahelienne au Mali: Synthese bibliographique
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): B. Traore
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Payment for environmental services: Brazil
(Excerpt from report Preface): This report presents the findings of the second stage of Compensation for Environmental Services Project (CES), carried out in Brazil from May […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): A. Verisimo; Y. Le Boulluec Alves; M. Pantoja da Costa; C. Riccio de Carballo; G.C. Cabral Born; S. Talocchi; R.H. Born
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Instruments for sustainable private forestry in Brazil: An analysis of needs, challenges and opportunities for natural forest management and small-scale plantation forestry
Abstract: Brazil presents particular challenges for sustainable forest management. Much of its forest is on private land and there are strong pressures to make land available […]
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): V.M. Viana; P. May; L. Lago; O. Dubois; M. Grieg-Gran
- Type of Document: Scholarly Article
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
What about a shared cost for watershed rehabilitation?
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): M. Viray; R. Serrano; A. Rola; C. Tabien
- Type of Document: Research Report
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
The role of wealth and cultural heterogeneity in the emergence of social networks and agricultural cooperatives in an Ecuadorian colonization zone
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): E. Jones
- Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
Measuring the Opportunity Cost of Carbon Sequestration in Tropical Agriculture
Coming soon
- Date of Publication: 2002
- Author(s): C. Zelek
- Type of Document: Thesis or Dissertation
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
